As she enthusiastically announced in a press release this Monday, March 30, but also on Instagram, Vanessa Williot will soon unveil a major project around the relatives of public figures.
She is the woman in the shadows, the one who supports her husband and who only appears on rare occasions in public to accompany him. Vanessa Williot, who married Xavier Bertrand in 2018 and who gave him two children (Lucas, 8 years old, and Maïa, 3 years old), decided to take a little more space. Having already set foot in politics (she did an internship at the parliamentary center of the former Ministry of Immigration in 2008, studied history, political and government science and was a municipal councilor), she intends to use her experience as a “woman de» for his new project. This one will come to life from the 1stis April on all listening platforms.
This is a podcast that she launched and called Against the light, in which she will meet “those who live alongside a well-known personality”, she explains in her press release. A status that she knows well and which she now wishes to bring to light to deconstruct certain beliefs linked to a family name, or to a marriage with someone exposed. Vanessa Williot has no intention “to tell the story of celebrity, nor to offer a critical reading of it, but to observe what it produces around it: in individual trajectories, personal balances, life choices.”The wife of the president of the Hauts-de-France regional council has planned to publish every two weeks an episode of about an hour, produced by her agency Powow, to give a voice to these wives, husbands, sisters, brothers, or even children of personalities from politics, well sure, but also sport, the economy, and social networks.
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To begin her first series, she will receive the former wife of footballer Robert Pirès at her microphone, before meeting a member of the Mulliez family who has extricated herself from the professional lineage of her clan, then questioning Brigitte Macron’s nephew. Finally, she will have the opportunity to speak with the sister of an influencer followed on the networks by millions of people. Enough to allow, perhaps, her future listeners to form an image different from the initial one, probably based on judgments.
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias
